Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

In 1993, Mike Lawson, an aerospace entrepreneur based in Roswell, Georgia, unveiled his vision for a brave new future of advertising: space billboards. This wasn’t a half-baked ...

Mayonnaise is having a moment far beyond the sandwich. In orbit and on the lab bench, scientists are turning this everyday condiment into a precision tool to probe how complex fluids behave in ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

Supernova PTF 11kly, a Type Ia supernova located 21 million light-years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), was detected within hours of its explosion, representing the closest such event observed in ...

The star causing this flare is not yet fully devoured: "Like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet." Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

A New Mexico college campus is working towards having its own astronomy center and it’s not just a place to gaze at the stars ...